Video world models enable interactive exploration of dynamic environments, yet struggle to respect prior observations over long horizons and across viewpoints. We present WorldCrafter, a video world m...
WorldCrafter is a video world model that introduces a camera‑queryable implicit 3D‑aware memory to improve long‑horizon consistency and viewpoint control. The model compresses multi‑view evidence into a limited token budget shaped by the requested viewpoint, integrating historical observations via a memory encoder and pose‑conditioned readout before denoising. Experiments on static and dynamic scenes demonstrate significant gains in consistency and camera‑control accuracy while maintaining visual quality during minute‑scale exploration.
By Wangbo Yu, Kunhao Liu, Wenbo Hu, Shenghai Yuan, Chaoran Feng, Haiyang Zhou, Yukun Huang, Yiran Wang, Wang Zhao, Yingmin Luo, Ying Shan
arXiv:2608. 07408v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study visual persistence in interactive video world models.
By Xindi Wu, Sven Elflein, James Lucas, Olga Russakovsky, Laura Leal-Taix\'e, Despoina Paschalidou, Jonathan Lorraine, Aljo\v{s}a O\v{s}ep
LayerRecall is a memory router for autoregressive video diffusion that selectively retrieves and injects historical key/value states into specific layers of the model, based on the current context. It addresses the problem that existing memory mechanisms expose nonlocal history but do not guarantee effective use, by recognizing that different layers prefer current, recent, or distant context. The method, combined with Cross‑Horizon Prediction Matching, achieves state‑of‑the‑art long‑range consistency on MemoBench and MovieBench while maintaining local continuity and incurring negligible inference overhead.
By Yixuan Ding, Jiahao Kong, Wei Huang, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang
arXiv:2512. 02473v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video world models have attracted significant attention for their ability to produce high-fidelity future visual observations conditioned on past observations and navigation actions.
By Yuta Oshima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Masahiro Suzuki, Yutaka Matsuo, Hiroki Furuta
arXiv:2608. 13492v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This report presents an improved version of AlayaWorld.
By AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li, Yifan Zhan, Yongtao Ge, Yuanyang Yin, Jiaming Tan, Kang He, Liaoyuan Fan, Mingliang Zhai, Ruicong Liu, Xiaojie Xu, Xuangeng Chu, Zhen Li, Zhengyuan Lin, Zhixiang Wang, Zian Meng, Zihui Gao
arXiv:2607. 15271v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Online novel view synthesis from multi-view streaming videos faces a fundamental trade-off: maintaining a persistent, long-horizon memory to reconstruct temporarily occluded regions while operating under strict real-time constraints.
By Baback Elmieh, Lynn Tsai, Zeman Li, Srinivas Kaza, Tiancheng Sun, Gabor Csapo, Ali Behrouz, Yuan Deng, Stephen Lombardi, Steven M. Seitz, Xuan Luo
OctWorld is a video diffusion framework that uses a persistent 3D memory called OctMap to generate long‑range, world‑consistent videos from a single image. OctMap fuses visual observations and depth maps into a dynamic sparse octree, adapting spatial resolution to image evidence while keeping memory usage low. Experiments show that OctWorld produces spatially consistent videos over extended camera paths and outperforms previous methods on both standard benchmarks and challenging long‑range scenarios.
By Zelong Lv, Sicheng Xu, Jianfeng Xiang, Ruicheng Wang, Yue Dong, Yu Deng, Guangzhong Sun, Jiaolong Yang
arXiv:2603. 03482v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interactive world models continually generate video by responding to a user's actions, enabling open-ended generation capabilities.
By Samuel Garcin, Thomas Walker, Steven McDonagh, Tim Pearce, Hakan Bilen, Tianyu He, Kaixin Wang, Jiang Bian
Anchor3R is a streaming 3D reconstruction framework that predicts window-relative poses and local geometry in the current‑frame coordinate system, forming a dense relative‑pose graph for online pose updates and loop‑aware motion averaging. It improves long‑horizon pose accuracy and dense reconstruction quality on indoor, outdoor, driving, and RGB‑D benchmarks, and generalizes from 48‑frame training sequences to streams exceeding 10,000 frames while keeping GPU memory bounded. The method addresses issues of train‑test mismatch, early‑anchor bias, and accumulated drift found in previous streaming models.
By Peilin Tao, Chong Cheng, Yuansen Du, Caiwei Song, Zhengqing Chen, Xiaoyang Guo, Wei Yin, Weiqiang Ren, Qian Zhang, Hainan Cui, Shuhan Shen
arXiv:2608.27529v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Streaming 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos requires estimating camera motion and scene geometry online under bounded memory and computation...
By Jiarong Han, Jincheng Xiong, Yuzhou Liu, Linzhe Shi, Changjie Wu, Ning Guo, Mu Xu, Hang Zhang, Ming Qian
RoGe is a new end‑to‑end framework for novel view synthesis that jointly learns an implicit 3D scene representation and a video diffusion model. It eliminates the need for explicit 3D intermediates by querying the implicit scene with camera rays to produce geometric features that condition the diffusion model. Experiments on DL3DV show that RoGe surpasses reconstruction‑based, generation‑based, and hybrid baselines in image quality and temporal consistency, and ablations confirm the benefits of ray‑queried features and joint training.
By Xiaolei Lang, Ze Kang, Zehao Huang, Naiyan Wang